Mark works on an assembly line building brooms and he enjoys listening to music during the work day because he is bored. At home when he builds model airplanes, he is thoroughly engaged, and needs absolute quiet during this task. What law explains this difference in Mark's need for arousal?
A) Law of Relativity
B) Komolgorov-Smirnoff
C) Law of Large Numbers
D) Fitt's law
E) Yerkes-Dodson

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The Yerkes-Dodson law states that there is an optimal level of arousal for performance, and that the relationship between arousal and performance is an inverted U-shaped curve. In Mark's case, he needs more arousal (in the form of music) while doing a relatively mindless task like assembling brooms, but needs less arousal (in the form of silence) while doing a more engaging task like building model airplanes.

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